Kinda dissapointed that Howeycoins can't achieve the same thing despite being older.
There's still 14 days and 22 hours before the HoweyCoins ICO begins, so technically its not older.
Grin seems to be only ready for Linux and OS thus far. Otherwise I would check it out.
https://github.com/GrinPlusPlus/GrinPlusPlusI'll wait until they make it a bit more user friendly for morons like myself.
You can mine grin on windows, been testing it from pre-genesis block.
Check out some of your pool of choice's links for the windows miner version.
thanks!